Beginning in Philadelphia in the late 1700s, the U.S. prison system has evolved over the centuries to become the largest in the world.

Think you know American history? Maybe it’s time to reconsider. The story of the United States is far more complicated, painful, and fascinating than what most of us learned in school. Too often, the ...

The Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground in Richmond, Va. CC BY-SA 4.0, CC BY The burying ground looks like an abandoned lot. Holding the remains of upward of 22,000 enslaved and free people of color, ...

“If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated,” wrote Carter G. Woodson in a ...